Lock for roller-bearing casings.



0. S. LOGKWOOD.

LUCK POR ROLLER BEARING GASINGS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.13,1011.

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OHARLES S. LOCKWOOD, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HYATT ROLLER BERINGCOIVIPANY, OF HARRISON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

LOCK FOR ROLLER-BEARING CASINGS.

Specification of Letters Yatent.

Application filed February 13, 1911.

Patented July 25, 1911. serial No. 608,457.

To all whom it may concern.: l

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. Loek l woon, a citizen of the United States, residing at 289 Market street, Newark, county of Essex, and State of Nlw Jersey, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Locks for Roller-Bearing Casings, fully described and represented in the following' specification and the accompanving drawings, forming a part of the same.

The present invention relates to a roller bearing having `a two-part casing with one .of the parts screwed upon the other to per- 'mit an adjustment of the seats which sup- Iport the rolls, and the improven'ient consists in forming one of such parts with a series of notches, and the other part with a rotating disk having a stud adapted to engage, at pleasure, any of the. said notches, so as to hold the adjustable part in its adjusted position. 'lo avoid any tendency of the stud to turn voluntarily out o't' the notches, the stud when engaged with the notcheslies in a circumferential line with the center ot the disk, so that the thrust is wholly radial of the disk and has no tendency whatever to turn the same.

The invention is especially applicable to that class of self-contained bearingsr in which two series of rolls are mounted upon aV doubly conical hub, and the easing is provided with two tapering seats adapted toY embrace the outer sides of the two series ot" rolls, and in which one of the seats in such casing is adjustable toward the other 4for taking up lostrjmot-ion and wear of the rolls. In such self-contained bearings, the exterior el' the casing is often made cylindrical so that the bearing may be tittedinto a suitable socket vin any mechanical structure a-nd there operate to support a .rotatingshaft or member. A locking-device applied to the exterior ot' thecasing to hold the parts from displacement when adjusted should there- -fore be recessed into the exterior' of the casing so as not to interfere with the fitting of the easing into a cylindrical socket. Various locking devices have been devised to accomplish this object. v

My invention, therefore, consists in a special form of locking device which meets these requirements, and is shown in the annexed drawing, in which-- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, where hatched, at the center line of a bearing embodying the invention; F ig. 2 isa section ot' the casing, where hatched, on line 2-2 in 'Fig'. I; Fig. 3 is an edge view of the casing alone, in section, where hatched, at the right hand side of the dotted line 3-3 in the same figure; Fig. 4 is an'edge view, and Fig, 5 an outside view of the. locking-disk; Fig tt, is a side view of the locking-disk; Fig. is a view similar tothe upper part of Fig.A 2 enlarged; Fig. 8 is an edge view of thc bearing, and F ig. 9 an end view of abearing showing an alternative construction. Two series of rolls a, a, are shown fitted to the opposite seats l), L', of the doubly conical hub c, and one part A ot' the casing is provided with a tapering seat (Z to ein, brace the outer sides of the rolls a, and the other part vB with a tapering seat b to embrace the outer sides of the rolls a. The part -A having the seat is provided wit-h a flange e having an internal thread and the part l5 having the scat (Z is fitted to such thread for a portion of its length, and the renminder formed with an inwardly projecting flange g having' upon its edge a series of notches i which are preferably made with parallel edges, as shown in `Fig. These notches are radial in their direction, and when the part B is rotated within the part A the movement is circumferential and the locking device must operate in resistance to such circumferential movement.' Over such notches the. exterior of the iange e, which forms a cylindrical periphery for the casing, is formed with a circular Arecess z' having a pivot-hole j extended through the bottom to the interior of the flange, and the bottom of the recess is formed with a segmental slot. L' at one side-of the pivot-hole, at the edge of thc recess. A locking-diskl is `made to turn movably in the recess and provided with a pivot pin m to extend through the hole y' and be riveted upon the inner side as shown in Fig. 7, thus holding the disk .movably in the recess. A lockingstnd ais projected inwardly from the disk through the slot le, and t-he slot is so related to the notches f1. on the movable part of the casing, that the turning of the disk permits the stud to be moved into or out of such notches. l Vhen moved into the notch, as shown in Fig. 7, the stud n engages the opposite parallel walls of the Ynotch and prevents the notched part B from any accidental dismal loo

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placement. r{he-'parallel walls of the-notches are at right angles to the rotative movement of such part, and therefore exert a direct thrust upon the pin without any tendency to displace the pin or force it from thenotch. It will be observed by reference to F ig. 3 that the end of the slot is which lies over the notches h 'is in the same circumferential line as the hole 7' and pivot-pin m upon the center of the disk, so that any turning of the parts B and A in relation to one another would thrust the stud n radially toward the center of the disk* and not produce the slight.- est tendency to rotate the disk.

The exterior of the vdisk is shaped to con form with the cylindrical curve of the casing when the stud ln, is engaged with any of the notches7 and no part'of the disk, therefore, projects beyond the cylindrical periphery'of the bearing.' A groove p suit-Y able to' receive a screwdriver-or flat wrench is formed upon the outer side of the disk for turning the same, and aspring g is sunk in the periphery 'of the casing adjacent to the disk as shown in Fig. 3, and has a head Q' sloped in both directions, to engage a doubly sloped notch o on the edge of the disk When the .studiaJ is engaged withthe notches li. -The spring operates as a detent to resist, in a yielding manner, any accidental displacement of the disk, but permits it to be turned for disengaging the'stud n with the notches L, and rengages the notch on the disk when the stud is turned back into engagement with any of the said notches. The spring is chiefly useful to prevent the disk, if loose upon its pivot, from turning into accidental engagement with any of the said notches when screwing the parts of the easing to'-, gether and adjusting them before locking.

I am aware that spring-dogs and pawls of various kinds have been employed for locking the parts of a casing, but it will be understood 'that the locking element of my device does not involve the operation of a spring but operates entirely independent of the spring y, by reason of the stud n lying in the same circumferential line as the center of the disk when engaged with the I do not, therefore, claim a spring locking device, but the disk mounted upon the outer side of the casing and having a stud standing upon a circumferential lirnd with the center of the disk when locking the parts.

Having thus set forth the nature of 'the invention what is claimed herein is:

l. In a roller or ball-bearing having a casIA ing in two parts A and B with a flange e upon the part A threaded internally and the inner part B fitted adjust-ably to such thread and provided with a series of radial notches the combination, with the said parts', ofv

the locking disk Z tted rotatably in a recess in the periphery of the flange e and provided with the inwardly projecting stud n yand the-flange having slot c extended through the bottom of the reess, permitting the movement `.of the studfand the Stud when turned into engagemenwith the said notches being in line withth center of the locking-disk.

2. In a, roller bearing, the combination,

with a doubly conical hub and two series of taperingvrorlls fitted thereto, of a two-part casing, one part having a cylindrical flange threaded internally and the other part fitted adjustably to such thread and each'of the parts having a tapering seat tted to the said rolls, a rotatable disk recessed Hush in the periphery of the cylindrical flange and provided with an inwardly projecting stud7 and the flange having a slot extended through the'bottom of the recess, permitting the movement of the stud into and out of the said notches and the stu-d when turned to engage the notches being in a 'circumferential line with the centenpf the disk.

3. In a roller bea. 1g, vthe combination,

with a doubly conical hub and two series'of tapering rolls fitted thereto, of a casing hav.

ing two parts provided each with a tapering seat fitted to the said rolls, one part having a cylindrical fiange threaded internally,

and the other part being adjustable in thev screwthread andv having radial notches h, upon the edge asset forth, the flange beingv provided with a circular recess with a pivot, hole in the center of such recess and a seg mental slot at one side of the same, a disk fitted Hush. in the said recess'and having means for turning the same, and pivot riveted to turn in the pivot-hole, and having a stud projected through the said slot andl arranged to turn into and out of thenotches upon the adjustable part.

Al. ln a roller bearing having'a two-part casing with the parts connected by screwthread, the combination, with one of the part-s having a series of notches'thereon, of a locking-disk mounted to rotate upon the other part and having a stud adapted, at pleasure, to engage any of the said notches and lock the notched part in relation to the other part, a spring operating upon the disk'v 'to exert a yielding resistance to displacement of the disk, and means for turning the disk in opposition to the resistance of the spring.y lnv testimony whereof I have hereunto fsetf my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES b. LOCKVVOOD.

Witnesses: u

l/VILLIAM D. BROWN,

Ivr'V W. AsLi-N. 

